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I have been trying to answer my son's questions about my faith for some years now and in trying to do so have had to seriously look at what I believe.

Not exact matches

The Pascals wager I always found a interesting hurdle for those not of Faith to overcome but the question you raised about the multiple Faiths.

The movie served to give me a different platform to discuss faith from, not to argue that my belief system is right and someone else's is wrong, but instead to point out that the world is hungry for questions about the soul and what we don't see right in front of us.

Catherine Newhouse writes a blog for RELEVANT about the need for Christians to respond positively to tough questions in order to make our faith big enough for challenges.

Either this criminal is mentally stronger than most you as just by mere one sentence that God made him do so he has turned you guys into questioning and arguing about the existence of God, Religion and Faith... For a change, what about discussing the nature of his crime and a just punishment for him???... you bunch of Sherlock HolFor a change, what about discussing the nature of his crime and a just punishment for him???... you bunch of Sherlock Holfor him???... you bunch of Sherlock Holmes

I talk about how the evangelical obsession with sex can make Christian living seem like little more than sticking to a list of rules, and how millennials long for faith communities in which they are safe asking tough questions and wrestling with doubt.

In an article about his faith, he wrote: «In order to answer this question once and for all: although there is no football God, I believe that there is a God who loves us humans, just as we are, with all our quirks, and that's why I think he also loves football!

CNN: Franklin Graham apologizes for questions Obama's faith commitment The Rev. Franklin Graham on Tuesday apologized for publicly raising questions about President Barack Obama's Christian faith, saying «I regret any comments I have ever made which may have cast any doubt on the personal faith of our president, Mr. Obama.»

I'm convinced that one thing folks from my generation long for is the chance to talk openly and honestly about our faith, our doubts, our questions, our ideas, our struggles, our joys, etc. in the context of a faith community.

(CNN)- The Rev. Franklin Graham on Tuesday apologized for publicly raising questions about President Barack Obama's Christian faith, saying «I regret any comments I have ever made which may have cast any doubt on the personal faith of our president, Mr. Obama.»

With all of this in mind, I'd love for you to try to tackle this question, which was asked of me in an interview for the Inspy Awards: Tell us about a book that epitomizes quality [Christian] faith - driven lit.

Questions also are raised about the identity of the church that plays such a major role in the Radical Orthodox account of history, about whether there is a doctrine of providence implicit in it, about the dismissal or ignoring of Protestantism, about the role of Jesus in its Christianity, about the role of Socrates in its Platonism, about its failure to engage with the challenge of modern scientific and technological developments, about how other faith traditions are related to this version of faith, and about whether this is a habitable orthodoxy for ordinary life.

If you have a question for Makoto about faith, art, or the challenges of living as an artist in today's world, leave it in the comment section.

For years I struggled with doubts about my faith, and through the emerging church movement, I found people who were asking the very same questions - about religious pluralism, the Problem of Evil, inerrancy, the notion of absolute truth, etc..

Yours was one of the first blogs I found back in 2007 when I started searching the blogosphere for others who might be asking the same questions about faith that I was asking.

But if you say, «We're here with lots of questions, wanting to learn about religious traditions, wanting to think about the meaning of faith for our lives, and we hope you'll join us,» it turns out you can draw a crowd.

As far as the question posed about what about salvation for people who died before Jesus came, or the people of other faiths who died already?

Anyway, I encourage anyone with serious questions about God seeking evidence for faith in God to visit rzim.com you'll find a wealth of intellectually sustainable reasons for faith in God.

But he has faced questions about his faith since first getting into politics in 1994, when he ran for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts against Democratic stalwart Ted Kennedy.

Her most recent trip to the Middle East has sparked an even greater passion for sharing stories and asking hard questions about faith.

They recovered the classical experience of reason as the potential infinity of human questions, showing how this dynamic «ratio» as a desire for understanding is healed and transformed by the paschal - metanoetic experience of faith in the Sophia - Cod of compassion and love.4 Aquinas, for example, understood God as «intimately present within everything that exists since God is existence» and that Cod's omnipotence — Aquinas wrote very little about it — regards not actualities but possibilities, and is best manifested in forgiveness and compassionate mercy.5

As I have conversed with my Mormon co-workers about their faith, every time I bring up a question they don't seem to be able to answer, they revert to talking about their experience (vision, dream, inner feeling, etc.) which proved to them the truth of what they believe, and then they tell me that if I really want to know the truth, I should pray for wisdom and ask God to give me a similar experience to reveal the truth to me.

As is evident, these questions raise all sorts of fundamental issues for Christian theology: about God, about «revelation,» about the decisiveness of the event of Christ — and corresponding questions for members of each of the other faiths (e.g., how veridical or «absolute» in this context is the «higher level of consciousness» of the Buddhists?).

Because there were fewer people telling Christians to be quiet about their faith at work or hurling insults, we weren't ready for the objections and questions that were about to be raised by Dawkins and co..

-- The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel (Zondervan: 1998)-- Good News About Injustice by Gary Haugen (intervarsity: 1999)-- I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist by Norman Geisler & Frank Turek (Crossway: 2004)-- Living with Questions by Dale Fincher (Zondervan: 2007)-- Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis (Harper: 2001)-- The Reason for God by Timothy Keller (Dutton Adult: 2008)-- Strong's (the complete library)-- Understanding Intelligent design by William Dembski & Sean McDowell (Harvest House: 2008)-- BeThinking.org — ConversantLife.com — Discovery.org/csc — Probe.org — Reasons.org

I have asked many questions over many years about my faith, and even now, as someone who has been a Christian for 30 years (since college) I still have questions.

Keller's column, «Asking Candidates Tougher Questions About Faith,» argues that the crop of candidates competing for the White House next year should be grilled on their religious beliefs and on how those beliefs inform their political views.

He was sure about things that caused me to question, so I think for a long time, I relied on his faith to carry me through.

So far our comments have been largely a contrast of stances toward human existence: a plea for a more truly dialectical, less dualistic understanding of the relation between form and energy, a plea for a similar openness toward the past, a question about the future to the effect that the incompleteness of the present ought not to frustrate Dr. Altizer into insisting that the total reversal promised by the glimpsed eschatological future be the only standard or norm of faith.

I want my children to make decisions for themselves about faith and some of what was presented in that film made me question if I was really allowing that.

Tripp is also committed to Christian nonviolence, and in June releases a book, co-edited with Justin Bronson Barringer, calledA Faith Not Worth Fighting For: Addressing Commonly Asked Questions about Christian Nonviolence from Cascade Books.

It's for this very reason that Justin Barringer and myself put together the book, A Faith Not Worth Fighting For: Addressing Commonly Asked Questions About Nonviolenfor this very reason that Justin Barringer and myself put together the book, A Faith Not Worth Fighting For: Addressing Commonly Asked Questions About NonviolenFor: Addressing Commonly Asked Questions About Nonviolence.

Being a Reformed (Calvinist) theologian of considerable earnestness, McGrath's essay understandably dwells at length on the formula «justification by faith alone,» and related questions about, for instance, the connection between justification and sanctification.

You would think that ALL objective news organizations would question if there something inherently violent about the faith of Islam for this to happen on a virtually daily basis!

It was also delayed over related questions about whether Mr Romero was killed out of hatred for his faith or his politics.

Jeremy good message and quite relevant for today God is still looking at our hearts and motives for serving him or are we serving our own agenda as Jonah was.He did nt feel compassionate towards his enemies and who could blame him they had cruelly killed many Jews it was a question of life or death to his own people.The Jewish nation was no more deserving of Gods grace than the other nations that is revealed by sending Jonah to preach a message of hope and life.Ultimately God calls all by faith in him and is willing to be merciful to all nations and peoples that do not not deserve it just like us it is by grace that we all are forgiven.I am pleased that God is sovereign and knows whats best he is merciful to us.Our human nature is that it is better to kill our enemies before they can kill us and that is essentially Jonahs message that is why he struggled to be obedient to Gods will.Gods message is to forgive those that trespass against us and show mercy.Its complicated and it is natural to protect ourselves and our families from those who would seek to destroy them but ultimately its about trusting God with everything easier said than done.If it comes to a choice we will have to trust God and ask for his strength because we cant do it in ours.As Christ laid down his life for us are we ready to lay our lives and the lives of our families as a sacrifice for him.To me that is where the story of Jonah is leading to we have the choice to fight our enemies or to love them as God loves them.brentnz

The Scriptures, though clear about the most important aspects of our faith, do not always offer easy solutions for life's hardest questions.

(He had many more, and more intelligent, questions about the faith than I did, for one thing.)

It has taken a long time for me to accept the fact that some people have questions about their faith and others don't.

There would be questions of biblical theology about the nature of Christian freedom, the relation between law and Gospel, the meaning of the law for those justified by faith.

Frankly, my initial reaction to both of these questions frightened me a little, for it involved asking harder questions about faith, confronting deeper insecurities within myself, and creeping farther down the dark rabbit holes of doubt that lie in wait in all the scary corners of my mind... which made me wonder, «Is hope really the thing that keeps me from disbelief?

What the Old Testament especially teaches us is this: «that zeal is as essentially a duty of all God's rational creatures, as [are] prayer and praise, faith and submission; and, surely, if so, [then] especially of sinners whom He has redeemed: that zeal consists in a strict attention to His commands» a scrupulousness, vigilance, heartiness, and punctuality, which bears with no reasoning or questioning about them» an intense thirst for the advancement of His glory» a shrinking from the pollution of sin and sinners» an indignation, nay impatience, at witnessing His honor insulted» a quickness of feeling when His name is mentioned, and a jealousy how it is mentioned» a fullness of purpose, an heroic determination to yield Him service at whatever sacrifice of personal feeling» and an energetic resolve to push through all difficulties, were they as mountains, when His eye or hand but gives the sign» a carelessness of obloquy, or reproach, or persecution, a forgetfulness of friend and relative, nay, a hatred (so to say) of all that is naturally dear to us, when He says, «Follow me.»

A review of the research suggests that the most effective uses of television in relation to those outside the normal reach of the Christian faith lie within the areas of imparting information about religious issues or organizations, the suggestion of religious questions for consideration by the viewer as applicable to his or her life, and the maintenance of a positive image in relation to general or specific religious issues or organizations.

All the living things will burned and there will be nothing left.Thanks a lot for your understanding.You better visit http://www.eliseosoriano.com for more information regarding the questions that you have right now about faith..

In the present book I have spoken only incidentally of the «case» for prayer; my purpose here is to make suggestions about the actual practice of prayer, including the question of its effectiveness, the various kinds of praying in which we may engage, the significant exercise of private prayer and of public prayer, the way in which the Lord's Supper (or Holy Communion or Eucharist call it what you will) sums up all our praying, and finally the point of prayer in the total context of Christian faith itself.

For the clergyman, the question of Jesus is not generally a crisis of faith or a skepticism about the world of Christianity or its message.

The fact of evil in the world and in human experience raises serious questions for any Christian discussion, as much about human existence as about the reality and activity of God who in Christian faith is affirmed to be nothing other than «pure unbounded love.»

Tripp is also committed to Christian nonviolence, and in June releases a book, co-edited with Justin Bronson Barringer, called A Faith Not Worth Fighting For: Addressing Commonly Asked Questions about Christian Nonviolence from Cascade Books.

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Decisions had to be made from time to time as to where or when services of the church would be held; the church needed to be told of the impending visit of an apostle, or of some prophet or teacher from abroad; a question has been raised as to the good faith of one of these visitors, and there must be some discussion of the point and a decision on it; a fellow Christian from another church is on a journey and needs hospitality; a member of the local congregation planning to visit a church abroad needs a letter of introduction to that church, which someone must be authorized to provide; a serious dispute about property rights or some other legal matter has arisen between two of the brothers and the church must name someone to help them settle the issue or must in some other way deal with it; a new local magistrate has begun to prosecute Christians for violating the law against unlicensed assembly, and consideration must be given to ways and means of meeting this crisis; charges have been brought against one of the members by another member, and these must be investigated and perhaps some disciplinary action taken; one of the members has died, and the church is called on for some special action in behalf of his family in the emergency; differences of opinion exist in the church on certain questions of morals or belief (such as marriage and divorce, or the resurrection), differences which local prophets and teachers are apparently unable to compose, and a letter must be written to the apostle — who will write this letter and what exactly will it say?